John Roberts return to the Sound Noir encampment after he premiered his breakthrough album “Glass Eights” at our party in November of 2010. This time instead of laptop and controller he comes armed with some of his favorite records and a few CDs full of unreleased edits and latest productions waiting to be pressed on vinyl – we are equally excited to hear what he has to say and to spin.
All the details are on the Facebook event page.
So happy to find this bit of tropical minimalism.
Original is hard to come by but both songs from that record are on this Sonar Kollective compilation from 2007.
Andrey
There are tracks that are meant to be played before midnight and those that are best appreciated at 10 in the morning. Michel Baumann is equally adept at producing beautiful examples of both either as Soulphiction or Jackmate – the monikers for once are very descriptive of the corresponding musical output. We are big fans of Michel’s skills as a producer, DJ and manager of the brilliant label Philpot, so tonight we are very happy to have a chance to hear him play at the Mister Saturday Night party. See you there?
This exceptional specimen of deep techno was pressed in 2008 as a single-sided vinyl on Phil e (Philpot’s techno off-shoot)
Find it on Discogs
Andrey
Moving on from freshly released to the well-aged. This is what I was listening to as a kid.
Actually I came across this particular song a couple of years back on Kings of Techno 2xLP compiled by Carl Craig and Laurent Garnier. But at about 8 years old I definitely had a tape with Yello’s album Flag on constant auto-reverse in my knockoff walkman.
This record on Discogs
Andrey
I thought most d’n'b would be better off without the usual percussion/wobblebass overload, but these guys went a step further and stripped it down to the core – won’t even call it the same name.
This record on Discogs
Andrey
Calm down..
Marc McGuire is a solo experimental guitarist/producer from Cleveland, Ohio and a member of improvisational krautronica trio Emeralds, who have opened for Caribou 2010 N.American tour and will be performing alongside Alan Howarth as a part of Unsound NY 2011 program.
Off in the distance was released in 2008 on Chondritic Sound tape and in 2010 on Cylindrical Habitat vinyl. Edition of 500.
This record on Discogs
Andrey
Tonight I’m going to see the Soft Moon NY debut at Home Sweet Home. It usually takes a lot to impress me with a rock album but the one-man production by Mojave dessert native Luis Vasquez (joined for the show by Justin Anastasi, Damon Way, Ron Robinson) has got my attention from the moment I heard the first 5 seconds of the first single “Parallels”. What’s more is that the self-titled album out now on Brooklyn’s Captured Tracks is every bit just as good. Case in point:
Nice 909-like claps there. Although this music is heavily influenced by krautrock and industrial of yore (while videos and artwork are all early dada/abstraction), the whole seems to be much more than a nostalgia for the year 1981. This man’s brooding music is brimming with new and authentic destructive energy, the kind of darkness worth succumbing to for a minute.
I have just ordered The Soft Moon LP from Captured Tracks and so should you. One more show is coming up this Friday at Monster Island Basement.
Andrey